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Classical Mythology
Course: CLT 3370, Fall 2008School: FSU
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September Monday 17, 2007 Arachne appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses. -- She was an incredible weaver and boasted that she was better than Athena. If you challenge a god, you are participating in hubris and is a way to acquire a gods wrath. -- Athena tries to get Arachne to repent by dressing as an old woman, but Arachne does not. Athena and Arachne have a contest. * Athena weaves warning into tapestry. Arachne...
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September Monday 17, 2007 Arachne appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses. -- She was an incredible weaver and boasted that she was better than Athena. If you challenge a god, you are participating in hubris and is a way to acquire a gods wrath. -- Athena tries to get Arachne to repent by dressing as an old woman, but Arachne does not. Athena and Arachne have a contest. * Athena weaves warning into tapestry. Arachne weaves disgraceful love scenes of the gods. Her weaving was just as masterful as Athena. Athena rips her weaving, beats her and Arachne hangs herself and is turned into a spider. Aphrodite- goddess of love, physical, emotional and philosophical. -- Aphrodite Urania- celestial form of love. -- Aphrodite Pandemos- physical love, lust. This one is linked to the accounts of birth in Hesiod's Theogony, being born of Zeus and Dione. -- Associated with love, beauty and marriage. -- Aphrodite often accompanied by maids, the seasons, the 3 graces. Aphrodite has a number of offspring with Hermes. -- Hermaphroditus- has both genitals. -- Priapus- shown as an excited man with a large penis. He would appear in gardens as a scarecrow. Would also be used as a signpost. * Serves as an apotropaic figure, which keeps away evil figures and is a guardian in homes. -- Eros- Cupid, winged cherub. Has rosy cheeks. He could be the son of Venus but could also be an entity Chaos. from Iconography- wings and bow. Son of Eres. Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite- connection to the island of Cyprus. -- Falls in love with Anchises, a Trojan hero and father of Aeneas. -- Aphrodite boasted of her power saying that even Zeus could fall in love with mortals. Zeus makes her fall in love with Anchises. She appears as a mortal maiden and sleeps with him. After it happens, Aphrodite feels disgraceful and swears him to secrecy and makes him say the baby is not hers but a nymphs. The Golden Ass- a man named Lucius who is turned into a donkey by a witch and has many misadventures. Cupid and Psyche- Love and soul. It is filled with fairy tale elements. -- King and Queen have 3 daughters, one of them is Psyche who has wings of a butterfly. -- Venus instructs her son Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with a mortal, but he falls in love with her. Her parents send her to oracle and dress her for a funeral to be eaten by a serpent. * Instead of being eaten, she gets taken by Cupid but has him as an anonymous lover at night. Her sisters trick her to find out who she is married to. She brings a lantern and is overcome by Cupid's beauty and while he flies away she holds on to his ankles. She later has a vengeance on her sisters. -- Psyche has to do labors for Venus and when she manages them all, Cupid saves her and they have a child named Pleasure.
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